News - Electricity Meter Technical Term

Below are the Electricity Meter Technial Terms we often use in electricity meter industry:

 

Voltage

Current

Power

Energy

Active

Reactive

Apparent

Phase

Phase angle

Frequency

Power Factor

Grounding

Direct Current (DC)

Alternative Current (AC)

Reference Voltage

Reference Current

Starting  Current (Ist)

Basic Current (Ib)

Rated Current (In)

Maximum Current (Imax)

Reference Frequency

Accuracy Index

Meter Constant

Pulse (80ms±20ms)

Power Consumption (Voltage Circuit)

Power Consumption (Current Circuit)

Insulation Protective Class

Ingress Protection Class

Uni-direction/Bi-direction Measurement

Resistor

Capacitor

Inductor

Resistive Load

Capacitance Load

Inductive Load

Quadrant

Reference Voltage

Reference Current

Starting  Current (Ist)

Basic Current (Ib)

Rated Current (In)

Maximum Current (Imax)

Reference Frequency

Accuracy Index

Meter Constant

Pulse (80ms±20ms)

Power Consumption (Voltage Circuit)

Power Consumption (Current Circuit)

Insulation Protective Class

Ingress Protection Class

Uni-direction/Bi-direction Measurement

DLMS/COSEM – Device Language Message System/ Companion Specification for Energy Metering

OBIS – Object Identification System

IDIS – Interoperable Device Interface Specifications

AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure

AMR  – Automatic Meter Reading

CMRI  – Common Meter Reading Interface

MDCS (HES) – Meter Data Collect System / Head End System

MDMS  – Meter Data Management System

STS  – Standard Transfer Specification

MCU – Measurement and Control Unit

CIU/UIU – Customer  / User Interface Unit

IHD – In Home Display

HHU – Hand Held Unit

ANSI – American National Standards Institute

BS – British Standard

IEC – International Electro technical Commission

CT – Current Transformer

PT/VT – Potential /Voltage Transformer, Power Transformer

THD – Total Harmonic Distortion

RF – Radio Frequency

LoRa

PLC –  Power Line Carrier

G3

PRIME

NB-IOT

OFDM – Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

SFK – Frequency-shift keying)

BPSK – Binary Phase Shift Keying

Reference Voltage

Reference Current

Starting  Current (Ist)

Basic Current (Ib)

Rated Current (In)

Maximum Current (Imax)

Reference Frequency

Accuracy Index

Meter Constant

Pulse (80ms±20ms)

Power Consumption (Voltage Circuit)

Power Consumption (Current Circuit)

Insulation Protective Class

Ingress Protection Class

Uni-direction/Bi-direction Measurement

Demand

Demand Period

Max Demand

Slide or Block

Load Profile

Time Division

Tariff, Time of Use (TOU)

Step Tariff

Billing

Event

Alarm

Anti-Tampering

Load Management

Load Switch


Post time: Oct-23-2020